While the SSD has plenty of space and is very fast compared to a HDD, it is still quite pricey.
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NemesisDestiny 04/20/17

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Bought this to replace my boot drive, a 480GB 5-year-old Mushkin Chronos 3 with a failing controller (sometimes hangs for up to 1 minute), however, I will soon be repurposing this unit as a games drive in my upcoming Ryzen build, alongside an NVMe boot drive.

Your getting a great product for the price. Good build quality and easy to install. Reliable product by a reputed manufacturer. One of the best options for the price specially when you get it on sale.
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SummaryBought this to replace my boot drive, a 480GB 5-year-old Mushkin Chronos 3 with a failing controller (sometimes hangs for up to 1 minute), however, I will soon be repurposing this unit as a games drive in my upcoming Ryzen build, alongside an NVMe boot drive.

This thing was nearly the price-performance king, only bested by the Crucial MX300 at time of purchase, but NCIX did not allow price match on that unit, so I paid 10$ more for this guy, with slightly less capacity (formatted out to 931.5GB). Looking at its specs, it has competitive random reads, writes, and IOPS, with strong sequential read/write performance. Pretty standard fare for non-NVMe drives these days.

It came bundled with Acronis OEM drive cloning software, which was fairly easy to use, though the in-app documentation is confusing in places. I had to clone it twice because of this - who needs a 450GB recovery partition?!? This was with default settings. WTF.

I ended up fighting with it all night because after all that cloning, it just wouldn't work. Drive was recognized by BIOS, but wouldn't boot after cloning, and repairing the boot sector in the Win10 Recovery mode didn't work, or so I thought. I kept messing with things until I had even borked the old drive I was using. I was just about to throw myself down the stairs out of frustration, when I tried one last time. Lo and behold, it decided to work properly! I don't know what I did, but I'm glad it worked. I haven't shut down since because I'm now paranoid. I'll admit that part of my issue might be from never having done this before.

OTHER than that bit of unpleasantness, the drive seems snappy and responsive, even more so than the SSD it replaced, and with twice the capacity. Hopefully without the issues of the Sandforce controller on the old one.

In summary, if you're looking for a lot of fast storage at a reasonable price, with longevity in spades, give this one a try.

SummaryYour getting a great product for the price. Good build quality and easy to install. Reliable product by a reputed manufacturer. One of the best options for the price specially when you get it on sale.

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